I had just finished working on my latest card game; I was rather chuffed with it: the rules were elegant and nuanced: there was a wealth of strategies you could use in the game. I explained the rules to two friends, and they began to play. I was expecting them to be amazed with the [...]
In a previous article, we looked at the diegesis theory of interface design. The theory can also be applied to audio design. This is a look into the design of audio for games, and how diegesis theory can help us structure our thoughts.
This article looks at the process of designing levels for a platformer: from the initial idea to the final playable level.
A distillation of the five puzzle game design interviews, taking together advice from Rob Jagnow, Guy Lima, Ted Lauterbach, Teddy Lee, Dave Hall and Teddy Lee.
Teddy Lee (maker of My First First Quantum Translocater and other popular Flash games) gives us his take on puzzle game design.
In this puzzle game design interview, Dave Hall from Toxic Games tells Dev.Mag how they designed the puzzles for Q.U.B.E.
Ted Lauterbach, creator of the eerie puzzle game, suteF, answers our questions about puzzle game design.
Dev.Mag talks to Guy Lima, one of the founders of Ragtime Games, on how he and his team designed the puzzles for Continuity, the sliding-tile platform puzzler.
As part of our series of interviews on puzzle game design, we asked Rob Jagnow about his approach. Jagnow is the founder of Lazy 8 Studios, and the designer behind Cogs, the steampunk-themed sliding-tile puzzle game.
This article gives some background information on puzzle games, and sets the stage for a set of interviews on puzzle game design.
In this second part of analyzing Desktop Dungeons, we look at how choices are given meaning not only through their complexity, but also through the role they play in structuring an experience.
This is the first part of an in-depth look at the design of Desktop Dungeons, the South African game that won the Excellence for Design Award at the IGF. In this part, we look at the player actions, choices, and tension.
Two Dev.Mag writers share their board game design experiences: conception, design, production, playtesting.
In this article, the Dave Russell introduces the basic concepts of diegesis theory in video game interface design.
This article gives handy tips for designing and building a platformer. There are tips for designing the interface, handling jumping and collision boundaries of goodies and baddies, implementing AI, and other ways to make a fun game.
Two things are key to becoming a great game designer: making games, and playing games. In this article, Rodain Joubert extracts and explains three game design lessons from playing Dungeon Crawl that revolves around difficulty, providing meaningful decisions, and removing tedium from the game interface.
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